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Positioning the exported CAD drawing correctly

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Positioning the exported CAD drawing correctly

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- [Instructor] We're staying in the A100-Site.dwg file. And I've left it in exactly the same state as it was at the end of the last video. So you can see there, we're in the model space, in the drawing. And you can see the little spot coordinate there, bottom left, that came in from the exported CAD file, that came from the Revit model. Now, I'm going to zoom in a little bit on that bottom left corner in a moment. What I'm going to do first is, take the crosshair bottom right, click, drag, and do a crossing selection all the way across, like that, selecting everything. I'm then going to right click, and go to Move on the shortcut menu, and it'll prompt me for a base point. Then, I'm going to zoom in. Get in on that bottom left corner. Make sure your objects snaps are on, and use that end point snap there and click. So, as you can see, I'm now moving everything from that bottom left corner. My site survey setting outpoint, so you might say. Now, I'm going to just roll back on the wheel…

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